Cenk Uygur
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'Binders Full of Women' Fact Check on Romney Comment
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October 18, 2012
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3:54Now Playing"In the debate on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney said that he made every effort to find qualified women to appoint to cabinet positions when he was governor of Massachusetts.
"Well, gosh," he said he told his staff who had an abundance of male applicants, "Can't we find some -- some women that are also qualified?"
"I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?'" Romney added. "And they brought us whole binders full of women."
Romney's story isn't entirely accurate.
Those "binders full of women" actually came from a coalition called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project, or MassGAP, that had formed in August 2002 to address the shortage of women in high-ranking government positions. They had started assembling groups of applicants, taking several months to reach out to women's organizations around the state and preparing to present potential hires to whichever candidate won the election."* Cenk Uygur explains that while 'binders full of women" is becoming a viral hit, Romney wasn't exactly responsible for them.
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